Hmmm … what do kids these days like? Sports? The Anglican Angels plan to take on the Vatican Avengers in cricket next year (I made those team names up). Putting their rivalries aside in another way, the Church of England invited Roman Catholics to live and pray at the archbishop of Canterbury’s London residence, breaking five centuries of tradition.

That’ll be a big reunion, but will it top next year’s Monty Python reunion? There’s a religious freedom element to that link, I promise.

Pope Francis, who I assume will bowl for the Avengers, met with patriarchs and archbishops of the Eastern Catholic churches and called for religious freedom in the Middle East. “The Bishop of Rome will not be at peace as long as there are men and women – of any religion – harmed in their dignity, deprived of what is necessary for their survival, robbed of their future or forced to become refugees,” he said, in the third person. Pastafarians, rejoice!

The pope will meet with human rights defender (kidding) and Nobel Peace Prize nominee (no, for real) Vladimir the Impaler Putin next week to discuss peace in the Middle East, among other things. Pray they both wear shirts.

A member of Kuwait’s Twitterati was sentenced to five years in prison in the Sunni-majority gulf state for “endorsing Shiite beliefs” in under 140 characters. This is hardlythefirsttime someone in the Persian Gulf has been arrested for tweeting.

Greece and perennial rival Turkey are at each other’s throats again. Turkey flirted with the idea of turning the Hagia Sophia museum back into a mosque. “Oh no you didn’t,” Greece shot back, noting that the museum was a Byzantine Christian church before it was a mosque (before it was a museum). Turkey swung low, saying it had “nothing to learn from Greece concerning matters of freedom of religion.” Lebanon jumped in to remind everyone it invented stuffed grape leaves, prompting Israel to smear Beirut in hummus. I made that last part up.

It’s no surprise that supporters of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of Turkey’s modern republic who died 75 years ago, worry that his secularist legacy is under threat.

The situation of Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar is grim. Buddhist mobs have killed more than 240 members of the stateless minority group in the past year. An Islamic organization called on Myanmar to repeal “laws restricting fundamental freedoms,” but the country outright rejected a U.N. resolution urging it to grant Rohingya citizenship.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said that whole separation of church and state thing is kind of moot because “God is everywhere” and “doesn’t need our permission to be anywhere.” Hmmm. I’d like to hear him tell that to the Supreme Court. I’ve got a feeling SCOTUS might think otherwise.

A new resolution in the House of Representatives urges India to “publicly oppose the exploitation of religious differences and denounce harassment and violence against religious minorities, especially in the run-up to India’s general elections in 2014.”

A convenience store in a Utah town can now sell booze … to Mormons … who don’t drink booze. Good luck with that.

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